Cover news trainee reporter Cao Yu
At the beginning of 2020, the sixth meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Commission was held, and the construction of the twin-city economic circle in Chengdu and Chongqing became a national strategy. After more than a year, the "Outline of the Construction Plan for the Twin Cities Economic Circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing Region" was officially released, and the news immediately attracted the attention of all walks of life.
What are the key tasks in the construction of the twin-city economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing area? How to promote cooperation and integration within the economic circle of the two cities in the Chengdu-Chongqing area? In this regard, the cover news interviewed Yao Shujie, secretary general of the Urbanization and Regional Innovation Pole Development Research Center, leading expert of the Chief Expert Studio of Chongqing Municipality, and professor of Chongqing University.
Professor Yao Shujie
Cover News: What is the significance of the announcement of the "Planning Outline" for the next step of the construction of the Twin Cities Economic Circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region?
Yao Shujie: It can be seen that the central government attaches considerable importance to the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle, and the state has spent more than a year formulating comprehensive and specific strategic measures and development goals for the Chengdu-Chongqing region.
The strategic positioning of the Twin Cities Economic Circle in Chengdu-Chongqing region is "two centers and two places" - to build an important economic center with national influence, a scientific and technological innovation center, a new highland for reform and opening up, and a livable place for high-quality life. Different from the three major urban agglomerations of the Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Chengdu-Chongqing's industrial positioning is based on traditional industries plus strategic emerging industries, driven by scientific and technological innovation, and the purpose to be achieved is to build an open highland in the western region, openness to promote reform, opening up to promote development, and opening up to promote technological progress, forming an important supplement and support with coastal open areas, and bringing important room for maneuver to China's opening up to the outside world.
Map of the Twin Cities Economic Circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region
Cover News: What are the more urgent tasks proposed by the "Outline Plan" for the Chengdu-Chongqing region, and how to do it?
Yao Shujie: "Planning Just Outline" mentions a lot of content, and I think it is more urgent to strengthen the aggregation function of the center of the metropolitan areas of Chengdu and Chongqing and improve their radiation function. At the same time, it is necessary to actively build urban sub-centers with Chengdu-Chongqing "dual core" as the main economic growth area, including Fuling, Qianjiang, Wanzhou in Chongqing, and then Deyang, Yibin, Luzhou and other places in Sichuan are suitable for development into regional sub-centers, through the connection of the south, north, and middle highways and railways, so that the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Corridor and these sub-centers together form a coordinated development of the urban belt, absorb the production factors of the vast rural areas, pay attention to rural development and ecological construction, and then create a tough and resilient economic sector.
Chongqing cityscape
West (Chengdu) Science City
What are the benefits of this? On the one hand, it can reduce the population and environmental pressure in the core area of the main city, on the other hand, it can promote the development of the surrounding small towns, and for Sichuan Province, the sub-center alone is not enough, such as Sichuan Yibin, Luzhou and other cities to be connected, Deyang, Mianyang, Leshan and other places to form a string, forming a development trend of urban agglomerations, improving the current situation of uneven development between regions.
Cover News: As core cities, how can Chongqing and Chengdu promote regional cooperation and integration in the specific construction process of the twin-city economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region in order to complete the development goals proposed by the central government?
Yao Shujie: The word mentioned most often in the construction of the twin-city economic circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing region is "scientific and technological innovation", which means that while undertaking some industries in the eastern region, the Chengdu-Chongqing region must also have the ability to innovate itself, so as to quickly reduce the distance between us and the eastern region. This requires Chengdu and Chongqing to dare to innovate and deeply integrate in system construction.
For example, in order to complete the deep integration of regions, it is necessary to properly separate administrative divisions and economic divisions, so that the development of industrial chain industrial parks in the two places can break down administrative barriers between regions, so that production factors can flow freely between the two regions and within 185,000 square kilometers.
West (Chongqing) Science City
Night view of Chongqing
The development of Sichuan-Chongqing region is mainly to cultivate the fourth largest economic sector in the country, and it can be seen from the construction level of the transportation network that radiates thousands of miles from the four directions of southeast, south, and northwest, to become a "dynamic" and "vibrant" urban plate, which plays an important supporting role in the new development pattern of domestic and foreign double circulation.
Cover News: In the construction of the Twin Cities Economic Circle in the Chengdu-Chongqing area, what problems do you think Chongqing is currently facing?
Yao Shujie: The system can release huge energy. I think that not only Chongqing, but also Chengdu and Chongqing should go further at the level of institutional innovation, especially in the integration and development of land policy, real estate policy, hukou policy, social service system, etc., mutual communication, from the perspective of meeting the needs of people's lives, the policy should be grounded, and production and life should be more motivated.
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